Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan

Counterfactual Probing for the Influence of Affect and Specificity on Intergroup Bias

While existing work on studying bias in NLP focues on negative or pejorative language use, Govindarajan et al. (2023) offer a revised framing of bias in terms of intergroup social context, and its effects on language behavior. In this paper, we investigate if two pragmatic features (specificity and…